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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (Event 6)

EVENT #6

Buy-in: $1,500

Prizepool: $1,135,680

Entries: 832

Top 12 In The Money

1.Thang Luu $243,342
2.Spencer Lawrence $156,344
3.George Guzman $93,806
4.James Pritchard $78,456
5.Chris Falconer $64,243
6.Greg Jamison $50,599
7.Craig Sabel $39,228
8.Mark Wilds $30,700
9.Scott Clements $22,172
10.Mark Gregorich $13,986
11.Jose Razocabrera $13,986
12.Jac Arama $13,986

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In what may be the youngest heads-up battle in World Series Of Poker history,
Michael Banducci beats Jeff Williams two years his junior and takes home $636,736 and the bracelet.
Banducci is only 23!
He and his competitor have honed their skills on-line.
No Limit Hold'em with re/buys was the game, Event#5.
Banducci spent $4,000 in his effort.The initial buy-in, one rebuy and two add-on's.
Williams takes home $406,330 for his effort and a second place win.
Total prize pool for this event was just under $3 million.

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em (Event 7)

EVENT #7

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 to Friday, June 06, 2008

Buy-in: $2,000

Prizepool: $2,899,260

Entries: 1,593

Top 12 In The Money.

1.Matt Keikoan $550,601
2.Shannon Shorr $349,141
3.Carter Gill $228,897
4.Theo Tran $191,231
5.Chris Bjorin $155,013
6.Mihai Manole $123,141
7.Justin Cuong Van (JC) Tran $94,166
8.Alex Bolotin $72,436
9.Mike Lisanti $50,705
10.Manelic Minaya $33,321
11.Yan Chen $33,321
12.Thong Tran $33,321

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
World Championship Mixed Event (Event 8)

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 to Friday, June 06, 2008


EVENT #8

Buy-in: $10,000

Prizepool: $1,804,000

Entries: 192

Top 12 In The Money

1.Anthony Rivera $483,688
2.James Mackey $297,792
3.Matt Glantz $184,992
4.Mike DeMichele $139,872
5.Eli (Mr. Vegas) Elezra $108,288
6.Ihsan (Sammy) Farha $85,728
7.Jeff Madsen $67,680
8.Tom Dwan $54,144
9.David Oppenheim $45,120
10.Gus Hansen $45,120
11.Ali Eslami $36,096
12.Tom Schneider $36,096

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The Milwaukee's Best Light Player of the Year Standings are a cumulative measure of performance during the 2008 World Series of Poker. Players will only receive points for open bracelet events.

There will be ZERO points awarded for the following events:

All satellite and "Second Chance Tournaments"
$1,000 World Championship Ladies Event No-Limit Hold'em (Event 15)
$1,000 World Championship Seniors No-Limit Hold'em (Event 42)
$50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. (Event 45)
$10,000 World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 54)
$500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em (Event 55)

TOP PLAYERS As Of 06/07/2008

Players Listed @ Minimum 75 Points

Name.. WSOP POY Points.. Bracelets.. Cashed.. 2008 WSOP Earnings

Nenad Medic.. 110 pts.. 1.. 2.. $810,608
Theo Tran.. 110 pts.. 0.. 2.. $518,379
David Singer.. 105 pts.. 1.. 2.. $217,072
Erick Lindgren.. 100 pts.. 1.. 1.. $374,505
Matt Keikoan.. 100 pts.. 1.. 1.. $550,601
Michael Banducci.. 100 pts.. 1.. 1.. $636,736
Anthony Rivera.. 100 pts.. 1.. 1.. $483,688
Thang Luu.. 100 pts.. 1.. 1.. $243,342
Grant Hinkle 100.. pts.. 1.. 1.. $831,462
Andrew Bloch.. 95 pts.. 0.. 2.. $503,652
Justin Bonomo.. 75 pts.. 0.. 1.. $230,159
Shannon Shorr.. 75 pts.. 0.. 1.. $349,141
James Mackey.. 75 pts.. 0.. 1.. $297,792
Jeff Williams.. 75 pts.. 0.. 1.. $406,330
Jacobo Fernandez-Hernandez.. 75 pts.. 0.. 1.. $136,644
James Akenhead.. 75 pts.. 0.. 1.. $520,219
Spencer Lawrence.. 75 pts.. 0.. 1.. $156,344

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In the end, Medic won the bracelet when Bloch, holding 9h-9s, moved all-in on a flop of 8h-5s-4h. Medic called the bet with the 5h-7h and turned his flush. A fourth heart failed to fall on the river, and Medic captured his first career bracelet along with more than $794,000 in prize money. Bloch earned $448,000 for second, while Antonius took home $124,000 for seventh.

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (Event 9)

Thursday, June 05, 2008 to Saturday, June 07, 2008

EVENT #9

Buy-in: $1,500

Prizepool: $1,687,140

Entries: 1,236

Top 12 In The Money

1.Ralph (Rep) Porter $372,843
2.Nathan Templeton $231,982
3.Devin Porter $151,843
4.John Conkright $101,228
5.Anatoly Shilyuk $70,860
6.Michael Brummelhuis $53,314
7.Dave Zand $36,442
8.Kevin MacPhee $36,442
9.Andrew Fegan $28,006
10.Jared Okun $28,006
11.John Von Halle $19,570
12.Thomas Fuller $19,570

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better (Event 10)

Thursday, June 05, 2008 to Saturday, June 07, 2008

EVENT #10

Buy-in: $2,500

Prizepool: $892,400

Entries: 388

Top 12 In The Money

1.Farzad Rouhani $232,911
2.Tom Chambers $142,784
3.(Miami) John Cernuto $86,117
4.Yueqi (Rich) Zhu $63,807
5.Gregory Pappas $48,190
6.John Racener $37,481
7.Daniel Mowczan $28,557
8.Michael Mizrachi $24,095
9.Brandon Cantu $19,633
10.Tad Jurgens $19,633
11.James Van Alstyne $15,171
12.Matthew Graham $15,171

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
World Championship Seven Card Stud (Event 14)

Saturday, June 07, 2008 to Monday, June 09, 2008

Buy-in: $10,000

Prizepool: $1,485,200

Entries: 158

EVENT #14

Look At This Field!

Chip Count Player With 40,000 Or More

Alexander Kostritsyn 121,100 Barry Mullinax 103,300 Michael Fiorito 101,900 Chad Brown 89,100 Daniel Negreanu 79,700 Ralph Perry 76,100 Cyndi Violette 70,300 Vassilios Lazarou 69,400 Eric Brooks 62,100 Thomas Weideman 62,100 Rolf Slotboom 61,500 Scott Fischman 58,400 Robert Zipf 58,300 Erik Seidel 57,400 Andy Bloch 56,300 Barbara Lewis 55,800 Archie Karas 54,700 Brian Lieberman 54,600 Alex Kravchenko 54,500 Matt Hawrilenko 54,400 Alan Boston 54,000 Greg Raymer 50,300 Grant Pittman 50,300 Fu Wong 50,000 David Benyamine 49,800 Jim Paluszek 49,500 George Lind 47,600 Minh Ly 47,500 Phil Ivey 46,500 Nick Schulman 46,200 Gerard Rechnitzer 45,800 David Levi 45,500 David Moskowitz 45,200 David Williams 45,100 Scotty Nguyen 45,000 Bill Chen 41,300 Cory Zeidman 40,800 Men Nguyen 40,100

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EVENT # 14

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:10:15

Tables of Death!

The table redraw for Day 2 has created plenty of tough tables once again.
As we roam the tournament floor we spotted the following tables of death!

Table 1: Minh Ly, Hoyt Corkins, Chris Reslock, Chad Brown, Daniel Negreanu

Table 2: David Williams, Alex Kravchenko, Shannon Elizabeth

Table 3: Doyle Brunson, Robert Mizrachi, Greg Raymer, Erik Seidel

Table 4: Mickey Appleman, Cyndy Violette, Rolf Slotboom, Alexander
Kostritsyn

Table 8: Scott Fischman, Scotty Nguyen, David Oppenheim, Tony Guoga, Steve Zolotow

Table 9: Men Nguyen, Katja Thater, David Levi, Dario Minieri, Phil Ivey .

WOW!

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (Event 11)

Friday, June 06, 2008 to Sunday, June 08, 2008

EVENT #11

Buy-in: $5,000

Prizepool: $1,692,000

Entries: 360

Top Six In The Money

1.Phillip Tom $477,990
2.Greg (FBT) Mueller $298,638
3.Leo Wolpert $187,812
4.Sirious Jamshidi $118,440
5.Tim West $63,450
6.Thomas Roupe $38,070

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Limit Hold'em (Event 12)

Friday, June 06, 2008 to Sunday, June 08, 2008

EVENT #12


Buy-in: $1,500

Prizepool: $1,205,295

Entries: 883

Top 12 In The Money


1.Jimmy Shultz $257,049
2.Zachary Fellows $165,165
3.Vinny Vinh $99,099
4.Teddy Monroe $82,883
5.Brendan Taylor $67,868
6.Marcus Golser $53,453
7.Ali Eslami $41,441
8.Christoph Niesert $32,432
9.Chung Law $23,423
10.Erick Lindgren $14,775
11.Zachary Henderson $14,775
12.Steven Shkolnik $14,775

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em (Event 13)

Saturday, June 07, 2008 to Monday, June 09, 2008

EVENT #13

Buy-in: $2,500

Prizepool: $3,213,100

Entries: 1,397

Top 12 In The Money

1.Duncan Bell $666,777
2.Steven Merrifield $428,948
3.Nathan Doudney $260,261
4.Shawn Buchanan $218,491
5.Brent Hanks $178,327
6.Jason Sanders $139,769
7.Ariel Soffer $107,638
8.Brent Ditzik $83,540
9.Nicolas Levi $59,442
10.Adam Katz $38,236
11.Napoleon Ta $38,236
12.Yuri Shapiro $38,236

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
World Championship Seven Card Stud (Event 14)

Saturday, June 07, 2008 to Monday, June 09, 2008

EVENT #14

Buy-in: $10,000

Prizepool: $1,485,200

Entries: 158

Tpo 12 In The Money

1.Eric Brooks $415,856
2.Fu Wong $259,910
3.Alexander Kostritsyn $163,372
4.Minh Ly $118,816
5.Erik Seidel $92,825
6.Jim Paluszek $74,260
7.David Oppenheim $59,408
8.Vasili Lazarou $48,269
9.Phil Ivey $37,130
10.Thomas Weideman $37,130
11.Daniel Negreanu $33,417
12.Jacobo Fernandez-Hernandez $33,417


Event #14 Is In the Books!

158 players started this $10,000 Seven-Card Stud World Championship. One of the strongest stud fields of all time assembled to try and take down the coveted world title.
Eight players, including two multi bracelet winners, started this final table, but it was an unknown player, Eric Brooks, who took the title.
This is Brooks' first professional cash in a major tournament. Brooks will donate his entire winnings to the Decision Education Foundation, whose mission it is to teach the science of decision making to youth in grades K through 12. At the beginning of this final table, Brooks stated that he was hoping to get lucky. Brooks indeed did get lucky, but he also showed tremendous skill outlasting 157 other opponents and taking home $415,856 and the gold bracelet. Congratulations to Eric Brooks, the 2008 Seven-Card Stud World Champion.

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Ladies No-Limit Hold'em World Championship (Event 15)

EVENT #15

Sunday, June 08, 2008 to Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Buy-in: $1,000

Prizepool: $1,082,000

Entries: 1,190

Top 12 In The Money


1.Svetlana Gromenkova $224,702
2.Anh Le $144,567
3.Patricia Till $73,637
4.Christine Priday $87,715
5.Marla Crumpler $60,101
6.Debbie Mitchell $47,106
7.Roslyn Quarto $36,277
8.Vesenia Garcia $28,155
9.Sue Porter $20,034
10.Tina Dubowy $12,887
11.Ngoc Hoang $12,887
12.Courtney Farrell $12,887

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Jimmy Shultz Winner: Not Just the cash, not just the bracelet.

Touching stories about good people are part of everyones poker game from time to time. It does not matter if you are playing in a house game, at your club, in a Poker Room at a casino, any game, anywhere. Small talk, sports, religion, sex, rock n' roll,good people, bad people ,stories and more.
At the World Series Of Poker some good or touching stories always manage to rise to the top.
Jimmy Shultz wins Event #12, collects almost $258,000, and his story is simple.
A good friend, a tragedy in his community and never forgetting a good friend and poker buddy that died in that tragedy.

About a year ago on June 18th nine firefighters died while fighting a fire in Charleston, his friend Louis Murkey was one of the nine. All nine were members of the City of Charleston Fire Department.

Shultz played this tournament with all of them in mind.
He is donating 25% of his win to the families of those who were lost.

"Louis Murkey was a friend of mine. He played poker with me. I have known him for about five years….I am one-hundred percent privileged to do this (make the donation) for Louis and for the other folks and all their families,” said Shultz during an emotional post-tournament interview. “I can’t wait to get back home because this was for all for them. This was for a lot of other people rather than just me.”

Anyone who would like to donate to the Charleston Firefighters Fund can do so by contacting:

Charleston Firefighters' Fund
c/o S.C. State Firemen’s Association Endowment
(Tax ID # 56-2254232)
South Carolina State Firefighters’ Association
Attn: James Bowie
P.O. Box 211725
Columbia, SC 29221

THANK YOU!

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (Event 16)

EVENT #16

Sunday, June 08, 2008 to Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Buy-in: $2,000

Prizepool: $1,002,820

Entries: 551

Top 12 In The Money

1.Andrew Brown $226,483
2.Ted Forrest $143,420
3.Jim Pechac $88,065
4.Soheil Shamseddin $71,961
5.Kia Hooshmand $58,877
6.Ralph Perry $46,297
7.Scott Clements $36,232
8.Alan Enciso $28,684
9.James Fricke $21,135
10.Lee Grove $13,587
11.Ralph Rudd $13,587
12.Mallory Smith $13,587

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World Series Of Poker 2008 Schedule


2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (Event 17)

EVENT #17


Monday, June 09, 2008 to Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Buy-in: $1,500

Prizepool: $1,365,000

Entries: 1,000

Top 10 In The Money

1.Jason Young $335,565
2.Mike Schwartz $209,527
3.John Strzemp III $129,675
4.Rory Monahan $82,582
5.Matt Giannetti $40,267
6.Kyle Bowker $23,887
7.Sergey Rybachenko $15,697
8.Tom West $12,421
9.Alex Triner $9,828
10.Casey Coleman $7,507

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Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:50:20
Congratulations to Mike Matusow, Champion of Event #18 ($537,862) Mike Matusow is the champion of Event #18.
This makes his third WSOP gold bracelet.
"I want to thank all of my fans," said Matusow, as he was being interviewed by WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack.
Matusow was clearly overwhelmed with emotion, though not quite to the point of tears. "I don't know much about this game," joked Matusow, "but I know no-limit. If I continue to play like I played this week, it's gonna be a real good World Series."
That comment drew a rousing round of applause from all of the fans who stayed into the late hours of the night to watch Matusow's triumph.
On the last hand before dinner, Matusow lost a huge chunk of his stack to Lisandro after betting a pair and getting called by Lisandro's ace-high. He came back from the dinner break with about ten big blinds in his stack. Just before play resumed after dinner, Matusow came over to our media table and started talking about the tournament. "It ain't over," he told us. He got that right.



2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball w/ReBuys (Event 18)

EVENT #18

Monday, June 09, 2008 to Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Buy-in: $5,000

Prizepool: $1,735,020

Entries: 85 Rebuys & Add-ons: 272

Top 11 In The Money

1.Mike Matusow $537,862
2.Jeffrey Lisandro $347,004
3.Barry Greenstein $225,552
4.Erick Lindgren $156,151
5.Tom Schneider $104,101
6.Tony (Tony G) Guoga $78,075
7.David Benyamine $58,990
8.Tom Dwan $45,111
9.Dario (Ryu) Alioto $34,700
10.David Grey $34,700
11.Chad Brown $34,700

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2008 39th Annual World Series of Poker
Pot-Limit Omaha (Event 19)

EVENT #19

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 to Thursday, June 12, 2008

Buy-in: $1,500

Prizepool: $1,036,035

Entries: 759

Top 12 In The Money

1.Vanessa Selbst $227,965
2.Jamieson Pickering $145,459
3.Stanley Statkiewicz $88,062
4.Thomas Schultz $72,004
5.Eugene Todd $59,053
6.Mel Randolph $46,621
7.Craig Natte $36,261
8.Jamie Robbins $28,490
9.Ken Lairson $20,720
10.Antony Phillips $12,950
11.Calen McNeil $12,950
12.Chris Bjorin $12,950